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When editing properties, the context menu UI provides two methods: (1) Right-click on properties file and select Open. This opens a special editor, editing all defined locales at the same time. (2) Right-click on one of the defined locale and select Edit. This opens an editor similar to the source editor, editing one locale at a time. When I use (2) to edit properties files, I can change the font used in Tools|Options|Editing|Editor Settings|Properies Editor, so it can display Chinese characters correctly. However, this editor does not convert Chinese characters into Unicode escapes. When I use (1) to edit properties files, I cannot find any font settings for it. I changed all font settings for all editors to SimHei, but any Chinese characters are still displayed as boxes. It does convert them into Unicode escapes correctly though. So either I use an external editor to type Chinese (so I can see what I have typed), then copy-n-paste them into (1), or turn the Chinese text into Unicode escapes myself and use either (1) or (2). Could a font setting be added for (1)?
Reproduced. The editor in (1) should probably use the option "Tools|Options|Editing|Editor Settings|Properies Editor" for (2).
See also enhancement #32392 - "Edit Text Rather than Escape Sequences".
fixed as described - the font setting in /Options/Editing/Editor Settings/Properties Editor is used in the table editor invoked by "Open" Checked in: rev 1.2 of properties/syntax/src/org/netbeans/modules/properties/syntax/EditorSettingsCopy.java rev 1.2. of properties/src/org/netbeans/modules/properties/TableViewSettings.java rev 1.60 of properties/src/org/netbeans/modules/properties/BundleEditPanel.java